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Vishwa Theja

Address: 720W, 27th ST, APT-232, LA 90007

E-mail: vpokala@usc.edu

Phone: 213-448-0804

Personal info
 

  • Doing a full- time Master ’s degree in computer science specializing in intelligent Robotics and am open to pursing a doctoral program in the same field, supporting a teaching or a researching career.

  • Areas of Interest : Mobile Robotics, Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction

Work experience
 

Student Researcher, University of Southern California

8/2014 - present

 

  • Developing a virtual model of a robot “Maki”, which entails creating a URDF file in ROS for implementing child-robot empathetic interaction.

 

System Software Engineer, ST Ericsson, Bangalore

​7/2011 - 11/2012

  • MMI (Man Machine Interface) : Developed and Fixed bugs in Reference MMI for ST Ericsson Legacy devices. 

  • Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) : Integrated various modules of MIS (Modem Interface System) and made MIS releases to system integration team. 

  • USB UCV (Unit Case Validation) : Developed Android apps and automation test scripts in python for USB validation team and conducted USB Pre-Compliance tests: OTG, WHQL, GOLDTREE, USB-IF.

 

Intern, Indian Space Research Organization

​6/2008 - 8/2008

 

  • Developed a method to estimate pose and position of a robot. Used quaternion estimator algorithm 

  • and solved a system of quadratic equation in 3 variables to estimate the pose and position 

  • respectively

Languages

  • C

  • C++

  • JAVA

  • MATLAB

  • Arduino

  • Processing

  • Python 

 

Tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

  • Eclipse

  • Arduino

Operating Systems
  • Linux

  • Andriod

  • Windows

  • IOS

  • ROS

Version Management
  • GIT

  • Clearcase

Controllers
  • AVR Atmega

  • 8051

2010 - present

2010 - present

Education
 

University of Southern California, LA, MS- Computer Science (Intelligent Robotics)

2014 - present

 

National Insitute of Technology Kurukshetra, B.Tech-Computer Engineering

​2007 - 2011, GPA- 8.63/10

 

 

Achievements

  • Gold Medalist-Major Project 2011 in  Computer Department

  • Qualified for Summer Undergraduate Research Grant for Excellence (SURGE) -2010 by IIT Kanpur.

  • Qualified for the Indian National Olympiad for Informatics (INOI) 2006.

  • Coordinated the workshop ‘Crisis X10’ and the event ‘Roborynth’ at literati’11. 

  • Represented Karnataka Region in K.V National Chess in 2007 and secured 2nd in Intra College Chess Championship

 

 

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